By Bob Elliott
The Kansas City Royals were winning Game 6 of the World Series Tuesday Oct. 28 10-0 with only a few outs remaining before a Game 7 the next day.
About the eighth inning of the lopsided game someone told us: “Paul Beeston won’t be back with the Blue Jays in 2015.”
Too late to make any calls, but the next day we made a bunch.
After all Beeston’s future was more important than Game 7. Our Ken Fidlin can write a gamer 10 times better than I anyway.
If Beeston left, who would be replace him?
What was the future of general manager Alex Anthopoulos?
Ditto for manager John Gibbons.
All the phone calls resulted in zero franchise-shaking news in the executive suite.
It was status quo.
Beeston, whose contract expired at the end of October, would return for 2015 … or so we were told.
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